AI Headshots Sorta Work
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I gave AI headshots a try and it’s not bad. Some are quite good, but I’d call it a 7/10 over all. I made and attached a grid of the results, but I mixed in one real picture. Any guesses?
The hardest part was that it required 10-20 selfies with different backgrounds and outfits, but since I don’t take a lot of selfies I had to run around my house finding backgrounds and changing clothes for 30 minutes to generate enough training data!
As I said over on LinkedIn, I think this can be useful and while some pictures were flat out not me, there are a bunch that are usable enough for press releases, conference headshots, or social media profile pictures. It could also be usable if you wanted a remote team to all have pictures from the same style and “place” if that kind of thing mattered to you.
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